Upstream for wcstools is rather irresponsive, but I will try 2009/2/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > Sergio Pascual wrote: >> I'm going to rename wctools subpackages libwcs and libwcs-devel to >> wcstools-libs and wcstools-devel in rawhide. The library name will >> change also to libwcstools.so >> The reason is the libray name conflicts with the libray from wcslib, a >> package I'm working on now. >> >> repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps libwcs >> shows several packages, all belonging to me, I will rebuild them after >> the change. >> > This looks like a rather suspicious change to me. Looking at the > wcstools spec file and the patches it looks like upstream is building > libwcs.a. You've got local patches to build a dynamic libwcs.so. > > Changing the library SONAME downstream (in Fedora) instead of upstream > (in wcstools or libwcs) is the wrong thing to do. Other tools that > build against these libraries are going to be confused. Other > distributions could choose to have different library names. Doing this > as a Fedora-local change is not right. > > Please start by asking upstream to change the name of their library > (Either wcstools or libwcs or both). If that fails then we can contact > the other distributions (by using distributions-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to > try to work out the best renames that we can do across distributions to > resolve this. > > -Toshio > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
